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Pupil vs Pipeline - What's the difference?

pupil | pipeline |

As nouns the difference between pupil and pipeline

is that pupil is (legal|obsolete) an orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state or pupil can be (anatomy) the hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina while pipeline is pipeline (conduit made of pipes used to convey petroleum or gas).

pupil

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (legal, obsolete) An orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state.
  • (senseid)A student under the supervision of a teacher or professor.
  • * 1668 December 19, , “Mr.'' Alexander Seaton ''contra'' Menzies” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575
  • The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Di?charge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extingui?h the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and con?equently of all the re?t, they being all correi debendi , lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Di?charged as to one, and ?tand as to all the re?t.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}

    Etymology 2

    (wikipedia pupil) From (etyl) pupille, from (etyl) , named because of the small reflected image seen when looking into someone's eye.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina.
  • Why did your pupils dilate when you saw me topless? Do you like me or something?
    Derived terms
    * pupilar * pupilary * pupillary 1000 English basic words ----

    pipeline

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum etc
  • An oil pipeline has been opened from the Caspian Sea.
  • a channel (either physical or logical) by which information is transmitted sequentially (that is, the first information in is the first information out).
  • 3D images are rendered using the graphics pipeline .
  • a system through which something is conducted
  • A new version of the software is in the pipeline , but has not been rolled-out.
  • * April 19 2002 , Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightville [http://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/]
  • The gym’s proprietor, “Crazy” Tim Credeur, heads up the Gladiator Academy, which serves as a pipeline for amateur MMA fighters to move up the ranks, though few of them do.
  • (surfing) The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.
  • Meronyms

    * pipe

    See also

    * queue * FIFO

    Verb

    (pipelin)
  • To convey something by a system of pipes
  • To lay a system of pipes through something
  • (computing) To design (a microchip etc.) so that processing takes place in efficient stages, the output of each stage being fed as input to the next.